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The SML pump of carbon cycles in oceans

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Different from the solution/physical pump, biological pump and continental shelf pump of carbon cycle in oceans, a new pump named “surface microlayer (SML) pump” is developed based on data obtained from marine investigations and lab study. The SML pump has: (1) left-right dissymmetry of “pH-depth” curve; (2) the non-linearity of “concentration-depth” curve; and (3) difference of affecting confine of the SML pump. The issue of “source” or “sink” of atmospheric CO2 in the Yellow Sea and South China Sea is discussed.

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  1. Institute of Marine Chemistry, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266003, China

    Zhang Zhengbin, Gong Haidong, Liu Liansheng & Zhang Chuang

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Zhang, Z., Gong, H., Liu, L. et al. The SML pump of carbon cycles in oceans. SCI CHINA SER B 49, 126–132 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11430-006-0126-x

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